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Originally Posted By: Saturn_Fan
Originally Posted By: ZZman
I have had great luck with Linksys routers. No dropped connection issues after I set the DNS server addresses up manually in the router.
Tigerdirect and Newegg have great prices.
Can someone explain about this DNS server manual entry business?
I notice that whenever my connection drops off and I use Vista to try and negotiate it again so it will work, it will often say, "Windows is diagnosing problem..." then it says, "Cannot communicate with primary DNS server".
All the while my connection icon is active and windows tells me that my wireless connection is good to go.
There were some (known) issues between Linksys routers and Vista. A lot of it had to do with UPNP, but another was due to Linksys's implementation of SPI.
There are supposed to be firmware upgrades for all Linksys models affected.
If you run DD-WRT or Tomato, you shouldn't have the issue period.
Originally Posted By: ZZman
I have had great luck with Linksys routers. No dropped connection issues after I set the DNS server addresses up manually in the router.
Tigerdirect and Newegg have great prices.
Can someone explain about this DNS server manual entry business?
I notice that whenever my connection drops off and I use Vista to try and negotiate it again so it will work, it will often say, "Windows is diagnosing problem..." then it says, "Cannot communicate with primary DNS server".
All the while my connection icon is active and windows tells me that my wireless connection is good to go.
There were some (known) issues between Linksys routers and Vista. A lot of it had to do with UPNP, but another was due to Linksys's implementation of SPI.
There are supposed to be firmware upgrades for all Linksys models affected.
If you run DD-WRT or Tomato, you shouldn't have the issue period.